BARCELONA: Police on Monday (Mar 19) freed the wife of Mali's honorary consul in Barcelona after a man from the African country seeking to be allowed out of Spain held her hostage for five hours, police said.
A spokeswoman from the Mossos d'Esquadra, the regional police force in Catalonia where .....

As a long-running security crackdown by the Chinese government continues to target members of the Uyghur ethnic group living both inside and outside of China, Uyghurs last week protested in major international cities against the increasingly aggressive security and political reeducation campaign. At...

Emergency crews in Croatia struggled to contain a swollen river that reached record levels southeast of Zagreb Monday, while soldiers distributed food and drinking water to a section of Albania that has been flooded for two weeks....

SAN FRANCISCO: Uber said on Monday (Mar 19) it is cooperating with police following a deadly accident involving one of the ride-share company's self-driving cars in Arizona.
The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode, with an operator behind the wheel, when it hit a woman walking in the street in the...

(Bloomberg) The new cabinet announced Monday by China is the culmination of months of leadership reshuffles that saw President Xi Jinping assert his dominance over policy making.
The lineup includes recently promoted Communist Party leaders,...
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MANILA: The Philippines took a step on Monday (Mar 19) towards making divorce legal with the lower house of Congress passing a law allowing people to dissolve marriages, despite opposition from the president and bishops in the mainly Roman Catholic country.
The Philippines, which has the largest .....

Several large retail companies, including Wal-Mart , Target , Best Buy and Macy's , are making a direct appeal to President Donald Trump not to impose massive tariffs on goods imported from China, in a letter sent to the White House on Monday....